Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] been by " in BNC.
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| 1 | In September of the following year he made a trip to Furness Abbey to sketch , and recorded , ‘ I was treated in a more kind and liberal manner than I have been by any people in the North of Lancashire and Westmorland , by Mr. Atkinson , his mother and sisters ’ ! |
| 2 | For some reason she was more stricken by the loss of the letters than she had been by the news of John 's and Angela 's deaths . |
| 3 | because you cos it 's been by your face like , the back 's still wet . |
| 4 | It was the first time I had heard him play great music , and I was moved as I had been by the Bonnards ; moved in a different way , but still moved . |
| 5 | The tiles around Virginia 's bedroom fire-place , with the central motif of sailing boat and lighthouse , were designed especially by Vanessa , moved as she had been by her sister 's novel , To the Lighthouse , which memorialised their childhood summers at St Ives in Cornwall . |
| 6 | Her distress was evident to Nicandra , who felt nearly as embarrassed by Dada 's miserable driving as she had been by Aunt Tossie 's disgraceful exhibition . |
| 7 | Theda had hardly heard her , overwhelmed as she had been by the thoughtfulness of the unknown gentleman . |
| 8 | He 'd had this sickness all along , of course , but he 'd worsened since the assassin 's visit , and her tolerance for these traits , braced as she 'd been by her encounter with Gentle , had dropped to zero . |
| 9 | Although the sterling crisis which followed the budget of 11 November 1964 alerted more ministers to the economic realities , Labour 's tiny majority and the need to go to the country again as soon as possible meant that all too often electoral considerations were given priority ( as they had been by the Tories earlier in 1964 ) over economic policy . |
| 10 | Perhaps now teenagers — brainwashed as they have been by teen magazines , TV programmes and pop stars who all glamorise sex — will understand why it is so much wiser to wait . |
| 11 | Scoured as they have been by the turbulent and freezing sands that eroded every trace of fittings and furnishings whatsoever , their walls and ceilings do bear signs : remnants of incised and sometimes inlaid strings of rectangular shapes that numerous experts have confidently identified as writing , though no truly plausible translation has ever been constructed . |
| 12 | Although these areal units will alter less with time than administrative units , they are nonetheless transitory and so , ideally , smaller and more permanent units like kilometre grid squares should be used , as they have been by the OPCS in a limited fashion , as the basic building block . |
| 13 | Such an approach was repudiated by Harold Macmillan , the then Prime Minister , when we applied to join the Community , as it had been by Winston Churchill before that . |
| 14 | The Brotherhood was suppressed by Nasser when he came to power in the 1950s , as it had been by his predecessors . |
| 15 | Benjamin 's case , though , was subtly different : for the most part family emigration seems to have been prompted at least as much by the need or the desire to leave one place as it has been by the yearning to live somewhere else . |
| 16 | He was as shocked here as he had been by the scenes he had witnessed in London 's East End . |
| 17 | He was taken over by it as he had been by the piety which had moved him so completely in St Kentigern 's . |
| 18 | He was suddenly moved by her physically , as he had been by the sight of her in the film . |